Date   : Tue, 12 Mar 1985 21:13:00 MST (Tue)
From   : Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Subject: CERTIFY - a disk certification utility now available

Thanks to Charlie Strom <CSTROM@SIMTEL20> we now have CERTIFY
available from Simtel20:

Filename                       Type     Bytes   CRC

Directory MICRO:<CPM.DSKUTL>
CERTIFY.LBR.1                  BINARY   17280  A173H

Here is an excerpt from the .DOC file:

Certify is a Disk Certification and Utility program. It has been
placed in the Public Domain by the Author Cark Beck. It comes to you
compliments of the Denver, Co. Xerox Computer Club.  Certify is
essentially menu driven as in the example below:

"CERTIFY"

DISK CERTIFICATION & UTILITY    Rev 2.4  3/29/84
      By:  Carl Beck
             
             Arvada, CO.

Enter desired drive.  ( A - P) "A"

        The Disk in Drive A has:
77    Logical Tracks                     2     Reserved System Tracks
52    128 Bytes Records per Track        128   Directory Entries.

                   DISK CAPACITY
243    Blocks  at  2048   Bytes Each. = 486  Kilobytes.

         SELECT DESIRED TASK FROM THE FOLLOWING MENU

CERT - Read Disk & Report Errors | LOGBAD - Log Bad Blocks in Directory
DIR  - Print DIR                 | DIB    - Print DIR with Block Numbers
CPM  - Return to CP/M            | DSK    - Select a Drive
DUMP - Display in Hex/ASCII

Only the first 3 letters   "DUM"


                 SELECT DESIRED DATA

B - Block     | T - Track      | S - Sector       | N - File name
R - Return to main menu.

If Hex Numbers entered, enter H in front of Number
"T"
Enter Track Number (1 - 76 ) 1
Enter Sector Number (0 - 51 ) 0

     TRACK    1  -  SECTOR   0  -  PHYSICAL SECTOR  0  -  BLOCK  -1

addr 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00    (SECTOR DATA IN HEX)                                 (SECTOR DATA
10                                                           IN ASCII)
20
30
40
50
60
70

And so on and so forth through the various menues.

               END

--Keith